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...sensationalist Sun across a two-page spread. "It's unthinkable," noted the paper in considerably smaller type. "But anything goes with the royals these days." Declared the rival Daily Express: "She's 26 today, far from shy and surrounded by Hip Hoorays who dance and joke with her till dawn...
...dictum that for every wrong there is a right is not true reality. There are a lot of people out there who have been wounded, with no remedy." This is Ed Lawson talking, and can he talk. It is a stunning San Francisco dawn, and Lawson has rejected an invitation to breakfast. "I do not like to do two pleasurable things at once, converse and eat. I find one gets in the way of the other. We'll find someplace outdoors to languish." In moments he secures a public bench not far from Union Square, and occupies it with...
...court's decision came at the dawn of a new era in public morality and popular art. TV was becoming the mass medium of the middle class, yoked to the old restrictions, made timid by its new power. And other media -- film, radio, music -- were freed or forced to retool their products for narrower, more intense audiences. Pop culture was now as fragmented as modern art, and movies were boutique items in the great mall of contradictory American tastes. Movies for kids: I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957). Movies for mature adults: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...
...Dawn Steel, president of production at Paramount, recalls that Mamet's first draft was an "outline, very sparse." How sparse? Capone was hardly in it. To flesh out Mamet's bare-bones script, Steel and her boss Ned Tanen wanted De Palma. "In the past," she says, "Brian hasn't chosen the material that was worthy of him and that he was worthy of. He was making homages to Alfred Hitchcock. This one is a homage to Brian De Palma -- he felt it instead of directing it. With this picture he became a mensch." It surely marked a ! change from...
...suggesting stories and sources. He bounces around the newsroom, nagging, second-guessing or just plain giving orders. But he does sleep. The proof is in his office, which contains a queen- size bed. Though de Borchgrave owns an apartment in Washington, he spends many nights at work, rising before dawn to read the day's papers...